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Jacket

YOHJI YAMAMOTO, Tokyo (fashion house), Yohji YAMAMOTO (designer)
Jacket
 1983
spring-summer

Medium
cotton

Measurements
87.0 cm (centre back) 65.5 cm (sleeve length)

Credit Line
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Gift of Rebecca Dallwitz in memory of Delia Muriti, 2007

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Gallery location
Not on display

 

About this work

In an interview with The New York Times in 1983, Yamamoto described his intentionally loose silhouettes as ‘the idea of a coat guarding and hiding a woman’s body. I wanted to protect the woman’s body from something – maybe from men’s eyes or a cold wind’.

Artwork Details

Place/s of Execution
Japan

Inscription
label, inner centre back, printed in ink on white synthetic: Yohji Yamamoto / PARIS

Accession Number
2007.435

Department
International Fashion and Textiles

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